Ah, KIII TV in Corpus Christi. Back in the analog days when they actually were on channel 3, in June and July, the position of the sun would cause TV skip in the evening, and they would put a pretty good signal into the Cincinnati area for a few hours most nights. No shiat. Also picked up CBHT Halifax a few times as well in the summer in Cincy on channel 3.

Unless it WAS a meth lab, I'm figuring the explosion occurred because something broke because it wore out because someone couldn't repair it because there wasn't any money to do so because taxes are too low.

OR: ... couldn't repair it because there was no one demanding it be repaired because no stringent regulations governed whatever it was that blew up.

Also, you would think that instead of laughing about it, how about going right to investigate it instead of going to weather. I hate local news.

Their job is to sit in front of the camera and read the news off the teleprompter. They are not first responders. Sending someone to find out is the best they can do. Also they might as well stick to their regular schedule until they have some information to pass on.

/Also confused by the call letters//Shocked and pleased to find a news site that says what city and state it is in

When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in 1517, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas. And Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no! I can wear French Tickers if I want.

Seriously though.... I've always wondered why natural gas has zero safety mechanisms associated with typical installs. If a house has gas, it should require detectors just like smoke and carbon monoxide.

Looks like it's time for some stricter regulations regarding natural gas.

This is Texas. They don't even regulate highly explosive fertilizer.

Actually Nacho, you're about as wrong as you can get.http://otscweb.tamu.edu/Brochure/SaleOfAmNitrateTX.pdf (PDF).

I know it's fun to mock Texas, but do try to keep up. You're embarrassing yourself.

I'm Texan born and bred. There's plenty of reasons to mock Texas and that disaster in West is one of them. Not the disaster itself, but the level of incompetent oversight that led to it and the governor who declared that the oversight "was just fine".

Too bad the State of TX couldn't be bothered to enforce their two page brochure.

Seriously though.... I've always wondered why natural gas has zero safety mechanisms associated with typical installs. If a house has gas, it should require detectors just like smoke and carbon monoxide.

It's been mentally grandfathered in - we've used it for over a century.

My dad (an EE) jokes that if we didn't have home electricity and tried to introduce it today, we'd never get it past the lawyers and the bureauocrats.